Attenborough Strait

Attenborough Strait
Connects waters	Bellingshausen lake
with water	Wilkins Sound
Separates land mass	Charcot Island
of land mass	Latady Island
Data
Geographical location	70 ° 30 ′  S , 75 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 70 ° 30 ′  S , 75 ° 0 ′  W
length	60 km

The Attenborough Strait is a roughly 60 km long strait west of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . In a southeast-northwest orientation it leads between Charcot Island and Latady Island from the open Bellingshausen Sea to the icy Wilkins Sound .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2010 after the British wildlife filmmaker and naturalist David Attenborough (* 1926).

Web links

• Attenborough Strait in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)